Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of Am. Cordery, Cordery,**

Cornell University Press

Gilded Age EntrepreneurThe Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman\nAuthor(s): Simon Cordery\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501783180, 978-1501783180\nSynopsis\nSimon Cordery's Gilded Age Entrepreneur illuminates the fascinating and chaotic business world of Albert Pullman. The influential but little-known older brother of George Pullman and the craftsman of the family, Albert designed the first luxurious Pullman railroad cars and hosted promotional trips to show them off. In those heady early days, he met national business and political leaders and hired the first Pullman porters. \n\n Albert and George made a formidable team, but as the Pullman Company grew, Albert's role shrank. He turned to his own investment portfolio, often with disastrous results. Beginning with the industrial laundry that cleaned sleeping-car linens, Albert appeared before the Supreme Court after a catastr.